Kelly Dixon

The Best Homemade Shower Cleaner

The Best Homemade Shower Cleaner

Homemade shower cleaners are a great way to replace pricey and chemical filled shower cleaners from the store. Try the best 2 ingredient homemade shower cleaner on tough soap scum or for daily shower cleaning. IT WORKS!

Homemade cleaners are my favorite! With just two ingredients this shower cleaner will have your tub and walls sparkling again!

This shower cleaner has been called several things on Pinterest, but no matter what, it is tried and true! I often buy the ingredients in bulk which makes this homemade shower cleaner a breeze to make for just a few cents. What’s not to love about money saving household cleaners?

If you have young children in the house, keeping chemicals away from them is important. But, tub and shower maintenance is important too! I love that this cleaning solution doesn’t contain bleach or other harsh chemicals that many tub and tile cleaners do.

Other than having a sparkly clean shower, I love the smell it leaves. Why? Because it doesn’t leave a smell! Using vinegar is an old fashioned and well-known trick to DIY cleaning. You smell the vinegar when you’re making the cleaning solution, but you don’t smell it when you’re done cleaning.

The Best Homemade Shower Cleaner

Here are the 2 ingredients you will need:

Dawn Dish Soap

Plain white vinegar (any brand)

Use this to wipe down your shower or tub when you are done and your shower will always be clean!

Homemade Shower Cleaner Recipe:

If you can, use a sponge with a soap dispensing dishwand like this. But, you can really save this cleaning solution in any container that works for you. The wand is super convenient and it can hang in the shower.

Fill 1/2 of the container with Dawn Dish Soap

Fill the other 1/2 of the container with vinegar

Shake it up before you use it.

How do you use vinegar for cleaning?

Vinegar will help melt soap scum and tub and shower buildup, clean sinks, appliances and just about anything.

Why put dish soap in a shower cleaner?

When combined with an equal part of vinegar, this is a solution that many people have been using for years to remove soap scum without scrubbing.

How do you get rid of soap scum?

Using this shower cleaner, the vinegar will penetrate the buildup and the dish soap will cut through the pesky soap residue. They are a duo that can’t be beat!

Use this solution daily as a maintenance cleaner or about once a week for deeper cleanings.

Homemade Shower Cleaner Recipe

You Will Need

Dawn Dish Soap

Plain white vinegar (any brand)

Sponge

Directions

If you can, use a sponge with a soap dispensing dishwand like this. But, you can really save this cleaning solution in any container that works for you. The wand is super convenient and it can hang in the shower.

35 thoughts on “The Best Homemade Shower Cleaner”

We have exceptionally hard water on our acreage, very high mineral content that would leave deep red rusty stains. We installed reverse osmosis water softner which help immensely. Second step is to stay ahead of the cleaning so the water residue is never there long enough to create staining. I plan to try this chemical free cleaner to see how it works with that in mind.

Can you please tell me why these types of home remedies always say ‘Dawn’ dish washing detergent, not just any detergent. Is it different, or would any dishwashing detergent work? I don’t think we have Dawn here in Australia.

Julie – Dawn is absolutely incredible….. It’s amazing how it cuts grease….. We live on a river and several years ago a tropical storm caused a tidal surge which flooded yards and homes. Many people had oil tanks (for heating fuel) that were pushed into the water causing oil spills….. Even after the water level lessened – there were spots of oil residue in the grass. All you had to do was squeeze a few drops of Dawn and the oil “magically” disappeared.

Could you possibly order from Amazon?

(BTW – we see frequent commercials where they show ducks and other waterfowl being carefully cleaned with Dawn after oil spills – it’s true….. Dawn has saved the lives of thousands of waterfowl).

I ‘ve had a few spots of mold and got some 3% hydrogen peroxide from the pharmacy/drugstore, filled it into a small drip bottle. Wiped dry the moldy areas with a microfibre cloth and dapped a small amount of the H2O2 on there, repeated daily for ~4weeks, stopped the patches